“Never have I been more compelled by a novel whose main character’s traits and ethics I have every reason to abhor. This 1999 winner of Britain’s Booker Prize opens with the sexual exploits of a university professor in Johannesburg, who then moves, as a consequence of his actions, to his daughter’s rural landholding, where a single terrifying incident happens. At every step along the way, it tears at distinctions between good and evil, right and wrong, until the whole question of morality becomes an unknowable puzzle. It also offers keen insights on the land and people of post-apartheid South Africa, the legacy of race and the nature of human dignity. I feel truly grateful for this difficult yet intensely engaging work.” — John, Eagle Harbor Book Co., Bainbridge Island, WA. Buy Disgrace from Eagle Harbor Book Company.
Face Out
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
July 31, 2011